Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Warren Buffet's BNSF Railway, A King Polluter, Is Getting Sued
BNSF Railway, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is one of the largest coal transporters in the U.S. and a major polluter of the waterways in Western states.
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Big Coal Faces Even Bigger Opposition in Pacific Northwest
The Kinder Morgan victory -- in which a powerful energy company retracted plans to build a coal export terminal on the Columbia River in Oregon -- provides a good case study for how communities have been able to beat back the coal industry.
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In Oregon, Another Coal Export Terminal Bites the Dust
Kinder Morgan's decision to halt plans for a new coal export terminal in Oregon sent shockwaves across the Northwest, while protestors from Appalachia descended on D.C. to demand an end to mountaintop removal.
